OT, but needs atention!!!

[KA4HJH]

>Since everyone else has chimed in...

Yeah, really!


>I think of the Mini-disk as "the best cassette recorder you ever heard" but I
>don't compare it to DAT or CD formats. It is a "compressed" data format...
>presumably
>SONY is clairvoyant and can predict what (they think) I can or 
>cannot hear. If I
>was going to listen to some booming "bandpass" subwoofer then maybe they'd be
>right...
>As it is I can hear the difference between "Disk and DAT"...

I would hope so. The MD's compression scheme is probably better than 
high-rate MPEG Layer III but it's still lossy. My advice to anyone is 
listen before you buy. As long as you're not expecting it to be as 
transparent as straight PCM you (probably) won't be disappointed.

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

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